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Download Solution PDFThe Sonoran Desert is located in which country?
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Option 3 : USA
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is the USA.
Key Points
- It covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.
- It covers an area of 260,000 square kilometres.
- The western portion of the United States–Mexico border passes through here.
- It is a type of tropical desert.
- They are located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
- The region is characterized by high temperatures and low rainfall.
- The Sahara desert in Africa and the Thar desert in India are other examples.
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